Nancy Pelosi’s 2014 Commencement Speech, Berkeley by Patriot Staff This past month, San Francisco Representative and former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi delivered the commencement address at UC Berkeley. In her speech, the Democratic House Leader touched on all of the necessary…

Napolitano Represents the New-Age Antebellum South? by Alexander Salazar | Staff Writer In light of the treatment of the University of California’s new president Janet Napolitano by a certain contingent of our student body I decided to probe the justification for such vehement opposition to her appointment. I…

The Lackluster Shadow of the Free Speech Movement Olivia Cusimano | Staff Writer To quench my ever-lingering thirst for caffeine, I must come face to face with thousands of impassioned students, immortalized on the wall of the Free Speech Movement Cafe. The iconic Mario Savio is plastered left…

by Bobby Saxton In the wake of the devastating Sandy Hook elementary school shooting this past December, media pundits and politicians alike have been clamoring for the federal government to do anything and everything it can to prevent similar tragedies in the future. While analysts with any understanding of history and logic recognize that…

by Steven Johnson I’m sure you saw the flood of Facebook statuses on May 9, 2012. President Barack Obama spoke out in support of same-sex marriage in an interview on ABC News. For advocates of liberty all across the political spectrum― from the most radically liberal to the most staunchly libertarian― hearing the president…

The Semantics of Disarmament by Andrew Glidden In the wake of numerous mass shootings in 2012 – many of which involved rifles – gun control advocates have called for national attention to private gun ownership, with assault rifles squarely in their sights. Or, they would be, if assault rifles weren’t already illegal. Confused? So are…

How Britain Sacrificed its Freedom for Security Although we Americans sometimes like to think of our nation as the fount of freedom and democracy, formed at a time when most of the world lived in tyranny, the United Kingdom is in many ways the birthplace of the modern democratic state. Great Britain was the home…

The Passing of Robert H. Bork by Jacob Grant Last December, one of the greatest legal minds in American history, Robert H. Bork, passed away at the age of 85. Bork was, by all accounts, an accomplished legal scholar, a brilliant jurist, and an intellectual giant, with an extensive array of…

Stepping onto the battlefield that was Upper Sproul Plaza one could not escape the sight. From the dozens of protestors wearing black shirts, laying down right in front of the steps of Sproul, to the commotion and media attention that surrounded the Berkeley College Republicans table, there was not a sight to be missed. For…

The Bake Sale: A Personal Story On September 19, 2011 at 11:28pm I wrote three words that would change my life and the lives of several other people for several weeks to come, and perhaps even longer. No, it wasn’t “I love you.” The three words were, “Bake sale anyone?” The forum was an internal…

Setting prices for baked goods based on race is blatantly discriminatory—in the same way that using race to judge college applicants would be discriminatory. The Berkeley College Republicans oppose any policy that treats one racial group different from another. Some people would call ‘treating one ethnic group different from another’ racist, and we agree with…